Newly released body-camera footage captures the moment Cornell police told a fraternity member accused of participating in the alleged gang rape of a student that he was barred from the Ivy League campus.
The footage shows an officer informing the unidentified student that he could no longer enter Cornell University grounds after an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at the school in October 2024.
“Take a look at that,” the campus police officer says to the fraternity brother, whose face and identity are obscured. “Per the suspension, he is barred from any of the grounds owned, operated [or] maintained by Cornell University.”
The video, first obtained and shared by ABC News, was released with audio recordings from conversations between the alleged victim, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, and Chi Phi fraternity member Matthew Ingalls in the days following the incident.
During a phone call recorded by Jane Doe, Ingalls told her: “You did tell me you were sober, by the way.”
The recordings reflect sharply different accounts of the alleged assault. Jane Doe told Ingalls that he “already knew I was 10 shots deep” when he and six other men allegedly sexually assaulted her.
“If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” she said in one message.
Jane Doe also said she had gone to the emergency room and attended therapy after the alleged assault at the fraternity house, describing “so much damage on my body and my brain.”
Ingalls denied wrongdoing during the call. He said Jane Doe had persuaded him that she was not intoxicated and “hadn’t been anywhere” that night, claims she disputed.
Newly released body-camera footage shows the moment a Cornell fraternity member accused of participating in an alleged gang rape was barred from the Ivy League campus.
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The case has shaken Cornell after the alleged victim, identified only as Jane Doe in court documents, filed a lawsuit in September claiming she was sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024.
In the audio released by ABC News, Jane Doe asked Ingalls how they ended up in a threesome at the fraternity house, saying she could not remember parts of the night.
Ingalls replied: “So, you come in, say hi, and we start dancing for maybe like three to five minutes… And then I pop the question, you say yes.”
He said they “didn’t know who else to bring” into the threesome, so he approached another man on the dance floor. After that man agreed, Ingalls said, “then we go upstairs.”
Jane Doe alleges that additional Chi Phi members entered the room at different points and participated. In her civil lawsuit, she also claimed that fraternity members advertised “free p***y” in a Snapchat group chat.
Jane Doe told Ingalls she could not identify all of the men involved. She recalled seeing four men on a bed at one point, with others standing nearby.
“I have racked my brain for this mystery,” Ingalls said. “You know, it’s possible that both of us, like, remember this and it’s not true.”
Jane Doe rejected that suggestion, responding: “No, because I remember looking up and being like, ‘That is too many people.’”
The other Chi Phi fraternity members named by Jane Doe in the lawsuit are Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar. None has been arrested or criminally charged in connection with the allegations.
According to the lawsuit, one of the men posted in the fraternity’s active-members Snapchat group that there was “free p***y” upstairs, referring to Jane Doe. The filing included an image of the purported chat.
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